Yep. I've made the claim (and been wrong). I was convinced the data cliff was going to be a real problem. Now I feel like we are on the cusp of having Tony Stark's Jarvis at our fingertips.

What a time to be alive.

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neta1337 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Incredible how many times I read similar comments over the years, containing 'on the cusp' and 'what a time to be alive'. Indeed, what a time - not a single user-facing thing on the internet has improved since then, considering the power tool we got. The most used web services get drowned in generated stuff and so are the users

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trentnix 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Not a single thing? In my house, we are using LLMs to:

- plan youth soccer practices

- develop well-formatted soccer game substitution schedules

- build and ship software in languages I haven't used in 25 years on platforms I've never programmed for

- do meal planning and build shopping lists

- prepare grocery shopping carts

- solicit medical advice

- perform Garmin watch data analysis

- administer devices (with SSH access) using natural language

- avoid counterfeit soccer jersey purchases

- create "Warrior Cat" graphic novels

- make cartoon strips

- troubleshoot appliances

- manage finances

- review accounting ledgers

- diagnose malware infections

- so much more

And we do it all from a simple prompt that we can talk to if we choose.

I've built more (and better) software in the past month than I did in any given year in the 30+ years I've been programming.

I can understand pessimism regarding how this affects society. I can understand pessimism regarding how this gets abused. But for the life of me there's no good reason at all to be pessimistic about how quickly this has improved.

	▲	FiberBundle an hour ago \| parent [-]
		> I've built more (and better) software in the past month than I did in any given year in the 30+ years I've been programming I feel similarly, but I think it's a valid question. Why is all the software I'm using not getting better? To be honest, I feel it's more buggy than it's ever been.